Elizabeth Carney, Daniel Ogden

Philip II and Alexander the Great

Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives
Herausgeber: Carney, Elizabeth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A selection from the papers presented at an international symposium, "Philip II and Alexander III: Father, Son and Dunasteia," held April 3-5, 2008, at Clemson University, in South Carolina.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 787g
• ISBN-13: 9780199738151
• ISBN-10: 0199738157
• Artikelnr.: 31890706

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Carney is Professor of History at Clemson University. Daniel Ogden is Professor of Ancient History, University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Table of contents
* Notes on the contributors
* Abbreviations
* List of figures
* Introduction
* i. Father, Son, and Court
* 1.: The "Pixodarus Affair" Reconsidered Again. Stephen Ruzicka.
* 2.: The Bearded King and the Beardless Hero: from Philip II to
Alexander the Great. Victor Alonso Troncoso.
* 3.: In the Shadow of his Father: Alexander, Hermolaus, and the Legend
of Philip. Sabine Mÿller.
* 4.: Philip's Eurydice in the Philippeum at Olympia. Olga Palagia.
* 5.: Putting Women in Their Place: Women in Public under Philip II and
Alexander III and the Last Argeads. Elizabeth Carney.
* 6.: The Symposia of Philip II and Alexander III of Macedon - the
View From Greece. Frances Pownall.
* ii. Philip and Alexander at War
* 7.: Consensus Strategies under Philip and Alexander: the Revenge
Theme. Giuseppe Squillace.
* 8.: The Asthetairoi: Macedonia's Hoplites. Edward M. Anson.
* 9.: The Argeads and the Phalanx. A. B. Bosworth.
* 10.: Scythed Chariots at Gaugamela: a Case Study. Waldemar Heckel,
Carolyn Willekes, Graham Wrightson.
* iii. After Philip and Alexander: Legacy and Legitimation
* 11.: Cassander and the Legacy of Philip II and Alexander III in
Diodorus' Library. Franca Landucci Gattinoni.
* 12.: The Role of the Argeadai in the Legitimation of the Ptolemaic
Dynasty: Rhetoric and Practice. Margarita Lianou.
* 13.: Hieronymus of Cardia: Causation and Bias from Alexander to his
Successors. Joseph Roisman.
* iv. Reception of Father and Son
* 14.: Argead Dunasteia during the Reigns of Philip II and Alexander
III: Aristotle Reconsidered. William Greenwalt.
* 15.: "Worldwide Empire" vs "Glorious Enterprise": Diodorus and Justin
on Philip II and Alexander the Great. Ian Worthington.
* 16.: "You should never meet your heroesL": Growing up with Alexander,
the Valerius Maximus way. Diana Spencer.
* 17.: His Son's Father? Philip II in the Second Sophistic Sulochana
Asirvatham.
* 18.: Alexander in the Underworld. Daniel Ogden.
* 19.: "And your father sees you": Paternity in Alexander (2004).
Gideon Nisbet.
* Bibliography
* Index